Specialized arrays - Factor Documentation (original) (raw)
The specialized-arrays vocabulary implements fixed-length sequence types for storing machine values in a space-efficient manner without boxing.
A specialized array type needs to be generated for each element type. This is done with parsing words:
This parsing word adds new words to the search path, documented in the next section.
Specialized array words Passing specialized arrays to C functions Vector arithmetic with specialized arrays Specialized array examples
The specialized-vectors vocabulary provides a resizable version of this abstraction.